MOST-MENTIONED SPORTS FIGURES
Rather than break down the amount of time a specific athlete or figure was covered, we counted how frequently names were mentioned in the transcripts from the week. The 15 most-mentioned sports people for May 4-May 10:

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ESPN says goodbye to the Knicks:The Knicks were 36-30. They had the sort of good-not-great year the Houston Rockets are always having. They were lucky not to get swept out of the playoffs. After the Heat eliminated them on Wednesday, SportsCenter said farewell with an overwrought, overscored, overedited three-minute-long montage of the Knicks' season. This was Bruckheimer doing a yogurt commercial.

Hamboner: Thanks to his four home runs against the Orioles on Tuesday, Hamilton became the first baseball player in 2012 to get the most mentions in a given week; 15.25 of the 20.25 minutes of Texas Rangers coverage this week was focused on Hamilton alone.

Albert Pujols got 21 times more mentions last week than he has home runs: Pujols's first home run of the season, on May 6, got top billing during a Sunday edition of SportsCenter. It beat out a pretty compelling Knicks-Heat game.

Nearly half of SportsCenter's NFL coverage this week was devoted to concussions: More news about Junior Seau's death sparked an Outside The Lines investigation into former players' concussion lawsuits. The two reports, along with reports on Junior Seau and Cris Carter (who made news this week when he admitted he offered bounties to his teammates), totaled 16 minutes, almost half the NFL's total air time.